setup-repo

setup-repo is a Branching, merging & history skill for AI agents, published by Significant-Gravitas in the AutoGPT repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates setup-repo D (68/100) and it passed the safety scan; a judge model has also reviewed it, and it has been tested head-to-head on real tasks.

Initialize a worktree-based repo layout for parallel development. Creates a main worktree, a reviews worktree for PR reviews, and N numbered work branches. Handles .env creation, dependency installation, and branchlet config. TRIGGER when user asks to set up the repo from scratch, initialize worktrees, bootstrap their dev environment, "setup repo", "setup worktrees", "initialize dev environment", "set up branches", or when a freshly cloned repo has no sibling worktrees.

Grade
D
Quality
68 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
185,565

Won 2 of 6 blind task comparisons against the category's other leading skill, a deliberately weak skill and a no-skill baseline. Placed #5 of 6 in the judged category final for Branching, merging & history.

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Our review

Architecture
100 / 100
Maturity
Basic: a single SKILL.md
Security scan
No issues found
License
Not declared. Check the repository before reusing it.
Adoption
Adopted by 2 other repositories, in 3 collections
Scope
Portable: works in any project. Generic git worktree bootstrap for parallel development in any repo

Head-to-head

Won 2 of 6 blind task comparisons against the category's other leading skill, a deliberately weak skill and a no-skill baseline.

Judge review

Placed #5 of 6 in the judged category final for Branching, merging & history.

  • Trigger9090
  • Instructions9090
  • Specificity9292
  • Safety8282
  • Disclosure4545
  • Maintenance6262
Thorough idempotent multi-branch bootstrap with a nice explicit cross-skill sync note, but a long monolithic file that never offloads detail to references.

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